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Angels among us
Rainer Maria Rilke’s masterpiece extends the dimensions of poetic discourse and offers a fresh view of humanity.
Harry Cluff
May 5, 2021
Notebooks
Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
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What if Bach and Handel had met?
The massive international stature of Handel’s success seems to have irked Bach’s acolytes enough for them to fashion a false binary which to an extent persists to this day.
Mahan Esfahani
April 28, 2021
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The promise of Greenland
Inhospitable Greenland is no longer a geopolitical wasteland. New opportunities are spawning competition for the island.
Bruce Anderson
April 20, 2021
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Cats rule
Cats are the winners from pandemic lockdowns. We could learn a thing or two from them.
Fay Schopen
April 17, 2021
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Fighting the good fight
Culture wars are as old as politics itself – and far from being inauthentic confections, they cut to the heart of real, living disagreements about history, identity, nationhood and..
Dominic Sandbrook
April 13, 2021
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In praise of music’s uselessness
Let's do away with moralising about music and take pure pleasure in the work of composers of the past.
Mahan Esfahani
April 6, 2021
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More than the sum of our parts
Our enduring fascination with celebrity body parts reminds us of the frailty of being human.
Fergus Butler-Gallie
March 31, 2021
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Ernest Benn against the Census and the forces of Bumbledom
As Britons fulfil their Census obligations this week, they'll do well to take a note from Sir Ernest Benn's libertarian resistance to bureaucracy.
Alastair Benn
March 26, 2021
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Rodin’s eternal peace
The brief re-opening of the Rodin Museum’s gardens gave Parisians a bewitching respite from their everyday cares.
Agnès Poirier
March 25, 2021